The relationship of the Italian and southern French Cathars, 1170-1320 by Roach, A

“…<p>The aim of this thesis is to answer two questions, namely why Southern French Cathars chose to flee to Italy when persecuted in the early thirteenth century and secondly to assess the extent to which Catharism was a 'universal church'.</p> <p>The first three chapters deal with the separate arrivals of Catharism in Italy and Southern France from the Byzantine Empire. …”